Is it just me or is the Playground a big step back in the usability of
Pharo ?

For me its Gui makes no sense. Gone is the right click menu which had tons
of useful actions now you only get like a few options. The tab thing is
weird to say the least with the navigation of the tabs being in the
opposite side (bottom) of the navigation of the internal tabs(top). No more
right arrow menu for shortcuts and many features that workspace had. No
ability to resize the panel tabs . Weird terminolgy like "All ref" and
"Meta".  Meta tab you have to select the first item and then the other
first item and then it displays fully .

Also how one closes a tab panel ? Is it possible ? I tried everything but i
cant get them to close.

I click a method and instead of opening a panel on the bottom for the
source as I would expect ,make my workspace area disappear and create a new
panel that sends me to state, whatever this is. Then I have to click on the
source tab. This is one of the most annoying guis I have used in an IDE.

Ironically the meta tab has got this right , name of class - method names
and source of methods . On the instance side tab there is a different kind
of thinking , why ?

Also the inspector seems to get in some kind of loop opening forever panels
when it finds a dead end in its inspection.For example clicking self.

It has some good ideas in it, but I dont like the execution.

The big loss for me is the inability to create windows groups, this
functionality provided a very nice solution to the windows mess of pharo. I
can name my groups but also the individual windows and so the tabs have
short names that I know what they are and names of course I can customise.

I can disable it via settings but maybe I am missing something here, a some
kind of usefulness because I don't understand or don't know how to use it
properly.

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